LAS VEGAS, Nev., March 15 - Southern Utah's women's tennis team dipped to 3-3 on the young season Sunday evening after falling to Long Island University, 6-1. LIU, which swept the doubles matches and won five of six singles matches, improved to 3-1 with the win.

LIU's Selma Babic and Aleksandra Pavlovic teamed to stop SUU's Ksusha Nazarova and Olga Tatarchenko, 8-3, at first doubles while Linn Sjogren and Taysha Blessington got past Kirrily Burden and Carmen Blanco, 8-4, at No. 2. Kristi Latteier and Mandie Divino also fell by an 8-4 count to LIU's Dara Lahens and Stephanie Elie at No. 3.

Latteier picked up SUU's only point of the day with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Lahens at fifth singles. Babic got past Nazarova 6-3, 6-2 at No. 1, while Sjogren stopped Tatarchenko, 6-3, 6-2, at No. 2. At No. 3 singles Pavlovic defeated Burden 6-4, 6-2, while at No. 4 it was Blessington downing Blanco by a 6-4, 6-3 count. LIU's H'Ann Johnson claimed the final point with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Divino at sixth singles.

Women's Tennis Result

Long Island 6, Southern Utah 1

At Bally's, Las Vegas

March 14, 2010

Singles

1         Selma Babic, LIU def Ksusha Nazarova, SUU 6-3 6-2

2         Linn Sjogren, LIU def Olga Tatarchenko, SUU 6-3 6-2

3         Aleksandra Pavlovic, LIU def Kirrily Burden, SUU 6-4 6-2

4         Taysha Blessington, LIU def Carmen Blanco, SUU 6-4 6-3

5         Kristi Latteier, SUU def Dara Lahens, LIU 6-3 6-4

6         H'Ann Johnson, LIU def Mandie Divino, SUU 6-1 6-1

Doubles

1          Babic/Pavlovic, LIU def Nazarova/Tatarchenko, SUU 8-3

2          Sjogren/Blessington, LIU def Burden/Blanco, SUU 8-4

3          Lahens/Stephanie Elie, LIU def Latteier/Divino, SUU 8-4